Date: Apr 28th, 2009
Meeting time: 3:30 - 5:30
Meeting location: New IBM office - 11550 Ash Street, Leawood, KS 66211 (Park Place, Just North Town Center). Meeting located in Plaza Rm
Meeting topic: TOPIC : Practical experience in applying the Scrum methodology while utilizing Rational tooling.
Agenda:
3:30 - 4:00 Networking/Food
4:00 - 5:00 Birds of a Feather Session
5:00 - 5:30 Networking/Meeting ends
Summary:
David Pitt will guide a Birds of a Feather session by describing his experiences applying Scrum at a client site and how the Rational tooling can be used to support this agile development methodology. This will be an open discussion session for all attendees to participate with comments or questions.

Additional information:
Our Speaker:
David Pitt – Keyhole Software

David Pitt has more than 23 years of IT consultanting experience transitioning organizations in the adoption of web application technologies applying design patterns and application architectures that promote reuse, scalability, agility, and service based components. David has implemented several IBM Rational tools on client engagements. He spoke at the last two IBM Rational Software Development Conferences and co-authored "Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere" Second Edition (Addison Wesley)
*Agile Development Mechanism and Patterns with Rational Application Designer, session speaker at IBM Rational Software Development Conference, Orlando, June 2008
*Managing the Service Lifecycle with RSA, session speaker at IBM Rational Software Development Conference, Orlando, June 2006